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For the past six weeks, Wall Street traders have optimistically pushed the Dow up. Now, Wall Street will debate whether this is beginning or end of eurozone's debt crisis. 

Despite a mediocre earnings season and signs of an overbought market, Wall Street's bulls are likely to focus this week on signs that the economy is improving. 

After surprisingly successful financial reform, public vilification, and politics that have turned against them, the Masters of the Universe are masters no longer.

The debt crisis will again be top of investors' minds this week as the U.S. earnings season passes the halfway mark and there is little on the domestic economic calendar. 

With firms like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley reporting weak results, Wall Street’s moneymakers are doubting they will ever get back to their high-rolling ways.

The search giant posted record-breaking quarterly revenue of $10.58 billion. But Wall Street had expected Google to do better, and shares dropped in after-hours trading.

Renewed gloom about the debt crisis in Europe threatens to end the calm that has prevailed on Wall Street in recent weeks.

The start-up boom means there are more freshly minted millionaires looking to manage their wealth. And Wall Street firms are happy to help, for a fee.

Anonymous has gone after opponents of Occupy Wall Street and WikiLeaks, but now the group has focused on executives who support the Stop Online Piracy Act.

When Wall Street gets back to work on Tuesday, it will face a holiday-shortened week and a slew of economic indicators. But the nagging problems that dogged it in 2011 remain.